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The Orchestre symphonique de Montréal was urged to tighten and expand its policy on workplace harassment. The recommendation was made by an independent expert tasked by the OSM’s executive committee with conducting an independent investigation into complaints of sexual harassment against Charles Dutoit. The OSM said it accepts the recommendation. But the investigation’s findings were otherwise inconclusive. After communicating or meeting with the complainants “on several occasions,” the expert’s investigation “did not yield sufficient information in relation to allegations of sexual harassment,” the OSM said in a statement. The two complainants didn’t want to follow up on their complaints, the OSM said, and didn’t think it was necessary to “provide formal declarations with respect to these allegations.” Dutoit has been facing a series of sexual assault allegations for about a year, and several orchestras have since ended their professional relationships with him. Dutoit has denied all the allegations, which have not been proven in court.

Democrats won a House majority in the U.S. midterm elections. They flipped seats in a host of suburban districts outside Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Miami, Chicago and Denver. The result gives them power to investigate President Donald Trump and help shape the nation’s political agenda for the next two years. While Republicans retained control of the Senate, the Democratic win in the House ends the GOP monopoly on power in Washington.

The portable toilets kept on disappearing — and now a German company knows why. Two men in Germany have been convicted of stealing more than 100 portable toilets. The dpa news agency reported that Duesseldorf district court delivered its verdict Tuesday, giving a 40-year-old man a 10-month suspended sentence and a 28-year-old ex-colleague six months. Both men worked for a waste disposal company from whose premises the toilets — worth nearly 70,000 euros in all — gradually disappeared, a loss that was only discovered a few months later.The men admitted having sold the toilets to a company in the Netherlands via a go-between. Only three of the missing toilets have resurfaced. The defendants lost their jobs.

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